Organize Life - An Impossible Dream?
By: Nathan O Shaw
It’s important to organize your life. When everything is more organized you can do and achieve much more. In fact, success depends to a large degree on how well you can organize things. And what would your life look like if it was ideally organized?
And through collecting your thoughts in an organized way you can facilitate everything important to you. Efficiency will help you not lose precious moments of time due to a lack of organization and preparation.
Life when disorganized is filled with pressure, dissatisfaction and frustration in all 3 major realms of life.
Consider that the physical realm of your life involves the people, environment, and things like your health, security and financial situation
The 2nd realm is the emotional part of your life, involving your happiness or moments of depression. Being organized gives you the emotional freedom to be at peace as much as humanly possible.
Third is the mental realm. To mentally organize your thinking. This area involves your mental abilities of learning, questioning, reasoning, etc. All vital to be able to really organize things properly.
To organize life you will have to control and organize those 3 realms in full. Here are 3 very valuable techniques to help you organize your 3 realms. They will help you organize life from 3 different ‘ranges’.
A. Short Range: 10 Minutes Get-On-Track Exercise. During emotional or mental confusion you can sit for 10 minutes or so and write down what’s on your mind. It’s so surprising that an exercise as simple as that can significantly help you get organized. In fact, it’s one of the very best techniques for organized living and controlling the 3 realms.
B. Medium Range: Weekend Review to Organize Life. A weekend review is the time to consider the entire past week and upcoming new week and come to some conclusions and reflections.
Weekly reviews are one of the things that when you make a habit of it, can have a dramatic lasting effect on how organized your entire life becomes.
And don’t let your brain trick you into missing this important technique. Yes it can be extremely hard work to think of all the messy details of how things are going and attempting to put it all in order. But don’t let your brain get away with chickening out.
Call yourself all sorts of bad names to motivate yourself if you’re being too lazy. And it doesn’t have to be hard. Just grab pen and paper and jot down the thoughts on your mind about what happened the week before and what’s on the agenda for the coming week.
You could compare the previous weeks notes with what you write down at each Weekly Review to see your progress. If you keep this up, you’ll be amazed at how things begin to change for you.
C. Long-Range: Your Life’s Big Picture. Here’s a fact established by Brian Tracy. 3% of the population write down their goals.
See how much you can write down about what’s genuinely important to you. Some people go through life never really knowing. Writing these things down will probably produce some aha moments. And will also motivate you strongly to organize your life for what’s important to you.
How easily would you agree that the three techniques I’ve outlined are significant aspects to organize life? Again they are: 1. Regular 10 Minute Get-On-Track Reviews. 2. Weekly Self-Assessment Reviews. 3. Your Life’s Big Picture Reviews
Don’t worry about getting the 3 exercises right or wrong. The only mistake is to not do them. Simply by writing your ideas down I guarantee they will start to flow. Ask yourself question. What do I want. What have I done. etc.
About the Author
Nathan O Shaw writes about Organizing Systems on his Professional Organizer website.
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